Hyderabad: Slamming Narendra Modi government’s plan to deport Rohingya Muslim refugees, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said such behavior did not suit a country which eyes a permanent seat of United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
“The Indian Government wants a permanent membership in the UN Security Council. Will this be there attitude as a super power? Can the Centre send those Muslims back, who even have the permission of the Human Rights Council to stay here?” Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said.
“Is this humanity to send those people back who have lost everything? This is wrong. Under which law, can the Centre send all the Rohingya refugees back?” he added.
Further referring to the Sri Lankan refugees staying in Tamil Nadu, Owaisi said that they were allowed to stay in India even after being accused of spreading terrorism.
He even mentioned about the Chakma people of Bangladesh, who came to India in 1971 and have been living in Arunachal Pradesh, and Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who is treated as a guest in India.
“Isn’t a refugee staying in the camps of Tamil Nadu, even when it was claimed that these refugees are involved in spreading terrorism? Why were they not sent back to Sri Lanka? After the formation of Bangladesh, the Chakmas came to India, and got the status of refugees,” he said.
Owaisi requested the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government to not see Rohingyas as Muslims, but to consider them are refugees.
“We hope that the government of India gives shelter, an opportunity to live a respectful life and a future to their children, because the Indian Constitution gives the Right to Equality and the Right to Life, not only to its own citizens, but to all refugees as well,” he said.
Rohingyas are ethnic Muslims of Myanmar living in Rakhine province in the Arakan region. Myanmar government does not recognise Rohingyas as their citizens. Only about 40,000 Rohingyas are acknowledged as citizens in their country.
Rohingya Muslims are referred to as Bengalis in Myanmar. The 1982-citizenship law of Myanmar does not recognise Rohingyas as ethnic group and these people are practically stateless for 35 years.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju informed Parliament in August that there were about 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living illegally in the country. According to Centre's estimates, Rohingya's population has increased four times in India over the last two years. In 2015, their population was estimated to have been 10,500.
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